It’s giving week at Lucky Dog Refuge! They are Stamford’s best refuge and only provider for sick dogs! They are only able to continue their life-saving mission with your support. Every dog they save is worth every penny they pour into getting them better.
Please consider giving back to the dogs on Giving Tuesday, November 28, 2023 and the rest of the week!
Ask your employer if they would give or match a donation to help their mission to save the dogs! Thank you in advance for your generosity!
Please consider donating using this link! Click here!
Over 800 dogs placed in forever homes since June 2020!
Any donation – big or small! – is greatly appreciated and helps them continue their work so even more dogs can have happy futures.
Why Donate to Lucky Dog Refuge?
As you can see from the graphic below, they only recuperate (on average) a quarter of their costs through adoption fees – if even that much. For the rest, they rely entirely on the generosity of people like you.
They pride themselves on being a rescue that focuses on the dogs with medical needs – because they are the ones most at risk. Given how high the costs are, many rescues cannot afford to take on the medical cases and the dogs are left in pain to fend for themselves. But those dogs are the reason they started this rescue….and they need your help to survive and thrive.
Please help them continue to be a safe haven for the dogs most in need by donating today. Every dollar goes a long way.
Take a look at some of the dogs they have rescued and helped in 2023 and the general costs of running this rescue.
They are not just a rescue, they are a refuge. They focus on the dogs most in need of saving – those who have been abandoned by their families, the strays, the starving, the injured, the sick, and those in dire need of help. They take them in, rehabilitate them, provide housing, vetting, training, and extra doses of love.
Whether at their physical site in Stamford, CT or placed with one of their loving fosters, every dog they commit to is guaranteed love and a beautiful life with the forever family they so deserve.
Lucky Dog Refuge all started with one unfortunate puppy who ended up being very lucky.
Their founders’ family has been rescuing dogs since 2017, with 6 family dogs collectively. With each dog they rescued, they tracked down the rescuers to help pay it forward by contributing to other rescue dogs in need. That’s how the Lucky Dog Refuge rescue network began and gradually developed throughout the south.
In August 2019, a fellow rescuer posted about a very sick 10-week-old puppy who was found in West Virginia, split open from chin to belly. The initial vets said to put him down, that he would never survive – but luckily Sheabel Veterinary Hospital in Lexington, KY, takes on extreme cases. Their founders immediately committed to the small puppy and paid for his medical treatment. It was touch-and-go as the wound was infected in the worst way. Two months of daily wound care, stem cell bandages, antibiotics, and the creative use of sewing buttons to stretch the skin closed, and their sweet puppy was healed. He arrived to them in Connecticut in October 2019 and has since been the happiest, healthiest dog you’ve ever seen. They named him Lucky – because he was so lucky to be alive, thanks to the tireless efforts of a village of believers.
Lucky inspired their family to take their rescue efforts to the next level.They started Lucky Dog Refuge, which focuses on the more dire cases, the ones (like Lucky) that many would give up on before even trying.They then purchased a facility in Stamford, CT so that those dogs would have a safe place to arrive to. They hired a team of passionate, tireless rescuers who sacrifice their time, energy, love, and hearts for these dogs.
Since Lucky’s arrival and our first official adoption in June 2020, Lucky Dog Refuge has saved over 700 Lucky Dogs from all over the United States. These now happy, healthy, adopted dogs had suffered through the worst of humanity – from infections to gunshot wounds, being hit by cars, mange, starvation, neglect, parasites, heartworm, abuse, and more. They take dogs of all sizes, breeds, and ages. Inspired daily by Lucky, they ensure that every dog they commit to has a fighting chance to survive and thrive.
Medical cases are exceptionally expensive, and we average $2500/dog, with a recent case costing up to $20,000. Donations, grants, partnerships and sponsors are crucial to their ability to save these medical cases that are so desperately in need.
Without Lucky, their founders may never have started a rescue and saved so many dogs like them in need. Lucky was the miracle pup who launched it all and changed their lives in the best way.
Author: Chloe
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